Can someone tell me the journey of "Seabiscuit", "the owner", "the trainer", and "the jockey"

Question

♥☺☻Seabiscuit racehorse(american history)♥☺☻

Answer 1

Just to add some "trivia"

Red "Cougar" Pollard"

Tom "Quiet Tom" Smith"

Answer 2

Why don't you read the book Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand.  You'll understand the story better that way than someone trying to explain it to you.

Answer 3

Read the book Seabiscuit: And American Legend, by Lauren Hillenbrand. I would read the book before you watch the movie though, cause they changed alot of the things in the movie.

Answer 4

alright, here's a little summary of each.  but I really think you should watch the movie yourself... it's a wonderful movie both for horse racing and for the general history of the era.

Seabiscuit - His grandsire was the mighty Man O' War who was unbeaten except for 1 race.  But Seabiscuit was an awkard foal and was sold.  Seabiscuit was a very average looking horse... you'd expect to see him on someone's farm, not in a horse race.  He was much smaller than Man O' War or his sire Hard Tack.  And his sire was very fierce while Seabiscuit liked to eat and sleep in the pasture under the shade of the trees.  One of the great trainers, Sunny Jim Fitzsimmons, tried to train Seabiscuit, but couldn't find the way to encourage the colt to run.  They made him a training partner to other horses... they forced Seabiscuit to lose so that the other horse would gain confidence while training for races.  Seabiscuit was struggling in 2 claiming races per week... despite running against the lowest level of competition, Seabiscuit rarely won.  He eventually grew violent and hated people.  When Tom Smith first saw the colt, he saw something that he liked in the colt.  He took the time to understand Seabiscuit and he figured out the horse.

Charles Howard moved west and ran a bicycle shop until he got into the car sales business.  He became very into cars... he made a lot of money through his car sales skills and he loved car races and that sort of thing.  Then one of his sons died in a car accident and he and his wife ended up getting divorced.  

Tom Smith had done just about every type of work you can do with horses.  He was a trainer and farrier.  He had a close relationship with horses and could see what they needed... he was sort of a horse whisperer... he could take a troubled horse and soon it would be doing everything Tom asked it to do.  He was quite good at healing horses too.

Red Pollard had been abandoned at a race track as a teenager.  He started riding as a jockey in races and was fighting at night to make money.  It was a hard life... he was tall for a jockey so he had to work extra hard to keep the weight off.  From one of his fights, he had gone blind in one eye... but he couldn't tell anyone about it because he wouldn't be allowed to be a jockey anymore.  He really didn't have many friends... he fought at night for money, but he really fought with everyone all day.

The 3 people behind Seabiscuit were all as beat up as Seabiscuit was himself.  Charles Howard bought Seabiscuit and got Tom Smith to train him and Red Pollard to ride... they really turned the horse around... he went from being a broken down old horse that couldn't win a claimer to being one of the greatest stakes horses in the country.  But it was more than the horse's story.  It was also the people's story.  By buying this horse and making it a success, all 3 of the men also found success.  But it wasn't just about the success and the money.  Tom Smith had always been alone, living with his horses more than other people.  Red Pollard was abandoned and didn't have a family and never really found friendship or got along with people again.  Charles Howard had his family torn apart by his son's death.  When these men united behind this horse, suddenly had more than success or money... they also had each other.

The magic of the Seabiscuit story isn't just the rags to riches story of each of the characters... the magic was that the horse and all the people behind him were just as beat up as the country was.  At a time when the country was hurting and really needed a success story to gather behind, along came this horse that was just like the country.  Seabiscuit was the common horse and he had 3 common men behind him and the 4 made each other great.  That's what the country needed at the time.